Holidays Drive Fatal Crashes Warned by Safety Council
The National Safety Council warned that speed was a major factor in most holiday traffic accidents. A 1956 Labor Day study found 435 deaths in three days, with speed contributing to about half of the fatalities overall and rural-area crashes predominating. Police urged early starts, slower speeds after sundown, obeying limits, avoiding abrupt moves, and staying focused to prevent incidents.
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Echacago
Bac Cian
Council
National Safety Council
State Safety Drive Planned For Fourth
A coast-to-coast July 4 enforcement push will unify efforts by Texas Department of Public Safety officers to reduce highway deaths. Col Homer Garrison Jr. predicts ten fatalities on the holiday. last year saw twelve. Officers from Highway Patrol Motor Vehicle Inspection and License and Weight divisions will be engaged for an hour on July 4.
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Austin
Homer Garrison Jr
Department of Public Safety
DPS
Texas
Texas Highway Patrol
Motor Vehicle Inspection Division
Logging train plunge kills Formosan official in Formosa
A logging train wreck in northern Formosa collapsed a bridge killing Chen Chin-tung, 54, deputy director of the Forestry Administration, plus another victim. Twenty one were injured in the accident that occurred yesterday near Taipei.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chen Chin-tung
Forestry Administration
Money Resolutions Fall As Government Begins New Year
Washington officials forecast a rough start for the new fiscal year as spending trends shift. Predictions vary among parties with tax relief unlikely and debts and deficits in focus. The treasury shows a year end surplus but experts warn of a possible rise in spending beyond 1957 levels.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Treasury
Eisenhower
Congress
Two Airliners Demolished In Miami Terminal Crash
A four engine DC7B on the ground crashed into a parked Super Constellation at Miami International Airport short before midnight Friday. Both planes owned by Eastern Airlines valued at 5 million dollars were destroyed. no passengers aboard and the DC7B crew uninjured. Firemen battled the blaze for hours to prevent spread to other aircraft.
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Miami
Eastern Airlines
Eastern
Miami International Airport
Red China Threatens Boycott of Geophysical Year Project
Peiping radio reported a protest over the IGY committee decision to admit two Chinese committees. Chu Ko Chen, head of the Communist China IGY group, said China would not accept subordinating scientific cooperation to political aims. Russia and the United States participate in IGY.
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London
China
Peiping Radio
IGY
Taipei
Peiping
Chu Ko Chen
China Igy
Russia
United States
Ex-Colonel Hashimoto Dies in Tokyo of Cancer
Former war crimes figure Kingoro Hashimoto died of lung cancer in Tokyo at 67. He was sentenced to life by the Tokyo tribunal and released on parole from Sugamo prison in September 1953. Hashimoto served as a military attaché at Japanese embassies in Russia and Turkey before the war.
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Tokyo
Kingoro Hashimoto
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
Hashimoto
Sugamo
Russia
Turkey
Leftist Students clash with police at Tachikawa Field runways
In rain and mud at Tachikawa Field near Sunakawa Japan, pro Communist students fought police for about ninety minutes blocking runways. Police tore down 60 foot bamboo poles and dispersed the group with no serious injuries or arrests. The clash followed a wave of protests linked to the Sohyo federation.
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Sunakawa
Japan
Tachikawa Field
Gengakuren
Sohyo Union Federation
London Sees 91 Degree Heat in Hottest Day in a Decade
London suffered its hottest day in ten years with thermometers at 91 degrees. Reports from The Standard and Evening News note fires burning openly and disruptions as Wimbledon collapse and trains halted. A theft on Seven Sisters Road saw a truckload of refrigerators stolen in daylight.
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Mercury
London
Wimbledon
The
Evening News
Star
Seven Sisters Road
IProtier Calls for Controls on Nuclear Fallout Tests
Rep Holifield of California warns the fallout issue is now crucial and urges limitations on weapons testing. He accuses Russia of outmaneuvering the U S in radiation matters and says the Atomic Energy Commission has failed to keep Congress fully informed of hazards.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Atomic Energy Subcommittee
Holifield
Calif
Russia
Atomic Entergy Commission
Congress
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